The project of regional character, it is being developed in Chile by the National Commission of Scientific and Technological Research (CONICYT).

The project SciELO is FAPESP's inicitive (Foundation of Support to the Investigation of São Paulo State), and BIREME (Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information). Since 2002, the Project is also supported by CNPq - Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimiento Científico e Tecnológico.

This project envisages the development of a common methodology for the preparation, storage, dissemination and evaluation of scientific literature in electronic format.

Across the portal SciELO.org that integrates and provides access to the SciELO network sites, the users can realize searches in the whole SciELO collections or to level of a country especially.

about this site

SciELO Chile, is a part of CONICYT's policies of promotion to the research and diffusionof its results.

The aim of the site is to implement an electronic virtual library, wich provides full access to a selected collection of scientific Chilean serials, to each of its numbers, as well as to the full text of the articles. The access both to the serials titles and to the articles can be realized using indexes and forms of search.

The serials of the health area are linked to the LILACS and MEDLINE databases.

help

SciELO interface provides access to its serials collection from he Home page in the next ways:

under the item "Serials Browsing", by an alphabetic list of titles, or a subject list index or search form by titles words, publisher names, city of publication and subject.

under the item "Articles Browsing", is possible to access the full text of the articles, searching by author index, subject index or a search form on articles elements such as author names, title word, subject and words contained in the full text. If you want to search only articles published in an individual journal, use the navigation, bar on each one of the journals in particular.

under the item "Reports Browsing", you will find statistical information about site usage, usage of each of the journals an about the citationof journals.

SciELO News, provides information about new titles in the collections Chile and new numbers are included in the scientific collection, as well as links to related topic.